Carter Dougherty

Senior Fellow for Antimonopoly and Finance @demandprogress. 🤟🏼 👩‍🦰 👧🏼 👦🏼 + friends, 🏃‍♂️ in Takoma Park, MD. I study 🇩🇪 history, hauntingly relevant.

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

“We must embrace the antimonopoly spirit that has animated American debates about finance for more than 250 years.”

This article lays out how Dodd-Frank failed, and why antimonopoly thinking can animate a response the next time Wall Street crashes the economy. 1/17

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

Hahahahahaha

[JustGus @AFellaNamedGus]

Breaking: Cindy Hyde-Smith spoke to Scott Colom and has offered to release her hold on his judicial nomination.

[Axios @axios]

SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. https://t.co/5Duzi14eEp

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. Since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country.

So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves, or about security guarantees for Russia – they are hardly talking about real security. And peace.

What they really want – is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries, and to use force whenever they want, and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and, in many ways, simply fascist views to the next generations.

From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (3/3)

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Maria Flores Garcia was her high school’s valedictorian & is a student at UMD. Her arrest is the latest example of how Trump lied when he said that he’d only go after the “worst of the worst.”

I’m seeking answers on Maria’s detention & working to get her released.

https://t.co/3fh4giesqU

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

Incredible chronology from @semafor

[Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell]

This is a terrific resource for people looking to join the antitrust field.

[Daniel Hanley @danielahanley]

The most common question I am asked is, “How do I break into the antitrust field?” I usually give a hodgepodge of advice. Today, to keep supporting the antimonopoly movement, I’m releasing a free document that covers everything you need to know.
https://t.co/LtJS72AlMx

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer runs unopposed for majority leader, Democrats should withhold quorum, denying the caucus enough members to hold its leadership vote, until he presents a clear plan that members have a voice in. "Whoever wants my vote is gonna have to show me a concrete plan that's definitively different," she said.

Slotkin, a moderate who has already called for replacing Schumer, rejected framing the fight as progressives versus moderates, calling it "team fight vs. team flight."

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

Gee LBJ figured that out awhile ago cf. Caro

[Greg Giroux @greggiroux]

@SenAlexander 1994: Trent Lott elected Senate Majority Whip 27-26 over Alan Simpson.

Lott: “There’s a world of difference between a staff member politely inquiring how a senator might vote, and another senator bringing to bear peer and partisan pressure."

(Tommy Tuberville also made news)

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

Lackeys one and all

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?

Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”

Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.

Silence.

Every single one of them refused to say it.

Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

Paul Manafort levels of sleaze at such a young age!

[AF Post @AFpost]

Katie Wiles, daughter of former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, is a partner at Continental Strategy, whose reported federal lobbying income rose from $1.8 million in 2024 to more than $27 million in 2025 and reached $35.7 million in the first nine months of 2026.

Continental promoted Katie to director in its Jacksonville and DC offices on November 8, 2024, one day after President-elect Trump named her mother chief of staff. The promotion added lobbying and business development to her existing communications role.

The firm holds a $35,000-a-month lobbying contract with the government of Republika Srpska, the pro-Russian Bosnian Serb entity. During an August 2026 trip that Continental says was for a separate US corporate client, Katie was photographed holding a rifle at a shooting range alongside the entity’s interior minister, Željko Budimir.

On September 21, 2026, Susie Wiles met at the White House with Željka Cvijanović, the Serb member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s three-member presidency. A White House official says Continental partner Alex Garcia, not Katie, arranged the meeting.

The developments come amid allegations by former HHS senior adviser and MAHA advocate Calley Means that Susie Wiles’s office stalled MAHA policies while courting industry money for the midterms. Means also says Continental’s revenue surge was “tied to Katie Wiles working there.”

A Wiles spokesperson calls the claims “outrageous, defamatory, and provably false.” Continental calls the claims about the firm “inaccurate and baseless.”

Follow: @AFpost

[Jacob N. Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh]

🚨More from the Jewish Electorate Institute/The Mellman Group post-election poll of Jewish voters:

59% of Jewish Democrats have a favorable opinion of Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan, while only 25% view him unfavorably.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 BREAKING: Anti-abortion Republican Scott DesJarlais just lost his election by 280 votes.

DesJarlais pressured his mistress to get an abortion.

[Mike Pierce @millennial_debt]

I'd add:

Subpoena CEOs of the credit card banks that jacked up rates after the pandemic and kept them high

Subpoena CEOs of @PayPal @Klarna and other fintechs seeking bank charters

Subpoena CEOs of the 40 companies that received corporate pardons from @russvought's CFPB

[Carter Dougherty @CarterD]

@StrikeDebt Got some numbers that you can share?

[Democracy Journal @DemJournal]

“We have an economy that responds to the imperatives of Wall Street rather than people’s desire to lead dignified lives,” writes @CarterD. https://t.co/1UAV1lfuse

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

My vision for diplomacy and USAID.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

I believe in a world where a Palestinian child and a Jewish Israeli child growing up in the Holy Land can look forward at their life and believe it is not going to be curtailed by somebody's violence.

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

At some point, we have to talk about @CookPolitical and other “prognosticators” who had me and other southern candidates labeled as solid R for much of the campaign cycle. They made it much more difficult to fundraise and are part of the reason the South has been neglected for so long.

They’re only a reflection of the past and mysteriously avoid any accountability when they’re wrong. One of their “analysts” was extremely condescending to me (not Jessica) when I tried to make my pitch for why they were wrong about my rating like he knew something about MS politics when he’s never been to the Sip. This attitude hurt Jaime Davis & others so much.

[Senator Ruben Gallego @SenRubenGallego]

Billionaires borrow against their wealth TAX-FREE to pay for their lifestyle. Meanwhile, you’re paying taxes on every paycheck. I’ve got a bill to close that loophole and make billionaires pay their fair share.